Getting an error message that reads "illegal operation....VBE6.DL.

[Liz]

When I try to close an excel spread sheet I get an illegal operation warning.
When I click on details it says that excel performed an illegal operation in
VBE6.DLL. I uninstalled and reinstalled Office Standard 2000, but get the
same result.

 

[Fredrik Wahlgren]

When I try to close an excel spread sheet I get an illegal operation warning.
When I click on details it says that excel performed an illegal operation in
VBE6.DLL. I uninstalled and reinstalled Office Standard 2000, but get the
same result.

Dos this happen to any workbook that you try to close?
/Fredrik

 

[Liz]

Yes, it seems to happen with all workbooks

Dos this happen to any workbook that you try to close?
/Fredrik

 

[Dave Peterson]

If you open excel in safe mode, does it happen?

close excel
windows start button|Run
excel /safe

This stops excel from loading a lot of stuff.

If safe mode didn't help, then I think I'd try Help|Detect and repair (although
I would guess that reinstalling would have the same effect).

If safe mode did help...

One of the things that excel does when it's closing is update the toolbar file
(where customizations are kept).

This toolbar file can get corrupted and cause trouble (not sure if yours is
caused by this, though).

You could try this:
close excel
windows start button|search
look for *.xlb
rename all the files you find to *.xlbOLD.

The start excel normally and close it up. If excel still crashes, then the
toolbar file wasn't the trouble. Rename all the *.xlbOLD files back to *.xlb.

If it did help, then delete all those *.xlbOLD files. You will have to re-do
all your customizations, though.

 

[Liz]

EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in
module VBE6.DLL at 017f:6500dbb9.
Registers:
EAX=02a2f7e4 CS=017f EIP=6500dbb9 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=ffffffff SS=0187 ESP=0062d8bc EBP=0062d9b0
ECX=03790b30 DS=0187 ESI=038a0b30 FS=6bc7
EDX=02a2f7e0 ES=0187 EDI=00000008 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 01 51 ff 50 08 eb e8 55 8b ec 8b 45 0c 53 56
Stack dump:
004c8b34 6507f9d7 038a0b30 02a2f7e4 ffffffff 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

The above is the exact error message that I am getting. Maybe I should
explain further. We have a newer computer with Excel 2003 on it. We copied
an excel file from the newer version and opened it on our old computer.
Could this be affecting all of the older excel files? I haven't tried your
suggestion as yet.

Thank you.

 

[Fredrik Wahlgren]

EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in
module VBE6.DLL at 017f:6500dbb9.
Registers:
EAX=02a2f7e4 CS=017f EIP=6500dbb9 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=ffffffff SS=0187 ESP=0062d8bc EBP=0062d9b0
ECX=03790b30 DS=0187 ESI=038a0b30 FS=6bc7
EDX=02a2f7e0 ES=0187 EDI=00000008 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 01 51 ff 50 08 eb e8 55 8b ec 8b 45 0c 53 56
Stack dump:
004c8b34 6507f9d7 038a0b30 02a2f7e4 ffffffff 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

The above is the exact error message that I am getting. Maybe I should
explain further. We have a newer computer with Excel 2003 on it. We copied
an excel file from the newer version and opened it on our old computer.
Could this be affecting all of the older excel files? I haven't tried your
suggestion as yet.

Thank you.

I assume you didn't get an error when you open the file on the newer
computer. It only happens to the old one, right?

/Fredrik

 

[Liz]

Yes,only on the old machine which has Excel 2000 on it.

 

[Dave Peterson]

I can't make head from tail on this kind of message. I don't know anyone who
can decipher that stuff.

Does it happen with all your files--even if you create one in xl2003, save,
close and reopen it?